Starting to contemplate deleting BOINC from my PC and not participating any more!! I have not been able to get enough WU's to keep my PC busy for going on a month or two now!!!! Getting more disappointed by the day :(

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Starting to contemplate deleting BOINC from my PC and not participating any more!! I have not been able to get enough WU's to keep my PC busy for going on a month or two now!!!! Getting more disappointed by the day :(

CoreQuad--this outage is only the past couple days. I would encourage you to hang with us--and once this outage is fully resolved we can troubleshoot your general WU issues.

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Starting to contemplate deleting BOINC from my PC and not participating any more!! I have not been able to get enough WU's to keep my PC busy for going on a month or two now!!!! Getting more disappointed by the day :(

All your problems would be solved if you simply signed up with a backup project like it has been suggested since the day BOINC was launched.

Just a thought...

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You will be assimilated...bunghole!

I like the old days of seti, using setiqueue, where all computers would receive work from one computer which would talk to the seti servers. Easier to manage, and you could shut down other crunchers to give more work units to the computers you cared about more, or are just more efficient.

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Double bad luck..
This is my back-up project
LHC popped a gasket first.

At least the beers cold ! :)

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BTW, SETI beta has some MB work right now.
Hope I didn't open something top-secret ;D ;D ;D

I like the old days of seti, using setiqueue, where all computers would receive work from one computer which would talk to the seti servers. Easier to manage, and you could shut down other crunchers to give more work units to the computers you cared about more, or are just more efficient.

Well, it's possible to do both MB and AP SETI standalone.
That is, with little effort you can pass tasks on another host, process them there and then just return results on original host to send it to Berkeley servers.
It's possible and not so hard to not to do it manually or via some script.

All you need to simplify process is start task on original host, then suspend it, then pass task WU to another host (along with result, checkpoint and stderr files to keep all consistent).

Starting to contemplate deleting BOINC from my PC and not participating any more!! I have not been able to get enough WU's to keep my PC busy for going on a month or two now!!!! Getting more disappointed by the day :(

All your problems would be solved if you simply signed up with a backup project like it has been suggested since the day BOINC was launched.

Just a thought...

Depends on the posters priorities. SETI might be the only project where the science interests him?

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Einstein has died too. This message pops up when you try and connect to their website, not to mention can't upload or download anything.

Einstein@Home is down due to a fileserver crash. We are working to bring the project back online ASAP. UPDATE: Fri Mar 27 22:39:13 UTC 2009 The filesystem needs to be repaired so the project will likely be down for at least 12 more hours. Thank you for your patience.

Sounds like their version of Thumper...

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I like the old days of seti, using setiqueue, where all computers would receive work from one computer which would talk to the seti servers. Easier to manage, and you could shut down other crunchers to give more work units to the computers you cared about more, or are just more efficient.

This was suggested a couple of years ago. They called it SuperHost. Unless we all start asking for it the BOINC developers will spend all their time doing other things.

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Depends on the posters priorities. SETI might be the only project where the science interests him?

If the science interests him, he wouldn't be threatening to remove BOINC only because he isn't getting any work. That's completely counter productive.

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When seti crashed and burned over the new years week end, I took the Advice that was offerd here and did sing up for another project. Milkyway@home. Yes it has hurt my rac at seti a little. But it keeps my computers busy in trying times like these. And when the project went down this time I thought it was great that the word went right out about it.

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I like the old days of seti, using setiqueue, where all computers would receive work from one computer which would talk to the seti servers. Easier to manage, and you could shut down other crunchers to give more work units to the computers you cared about more, or are just more efficient.

This was suggested a couple of years ago. They called it SuperHost. Unless we all start asking for it the BOINC developers will spend all their time doing other things.

It would be nice to have something like this indeed.

This was suggested a couple of years ago. They called it SuperHost. Unless we all start asking for it the BOINC developers will spend all their time doing other things.

It would be nice to have something like this indeed.

Why 'nice'?

More development effort, more debug work, more opportunity for cheaters to pull tricks, and...

What 'must have' feature will it provide other than to encourage excessive hoarding of WUs?

The "SetiQ" type features of old are now spread between the boinc client and boinc manager. The only features missing are some stats and the pretty starfield chart/plots for the WUs processed. That sort of stuff can be added into an 'enhanced' boincmanager...


Anyone game for some coding?

Happy crunchin',
Martin

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This was suggested a couple of years ago. They called it SuperHost. Unless we all start asking for it the BOINC developers will spend all their time doing other things.

It would be nice to have something like this indeed.

Why 'nice'?

I agree.
Why have a cache on one computer, when you can have a cache on multiple computers? Just as we have now.

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Yeah, but what kind/type of host would that be, except super?
When this super crashes . . .

Yesterday I got about 30 AP WU's, EINSTEIN is still off line. LHC, only had a few WU's.
Signed up for Leiden Classical, they give instant credit, but not very much, compaired to SETI or others.
And SETI MB WU's are rare, at the moment. A look at the server page, tells enough.

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Three QUAD's still have AP WU's and Leiden Classical & LHC , 2 C2Duo's have SETI MB WU's, for 2 days.
Probably monday :)

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My fast machine is getting one or two Astropulse WUS a day, and my slow machine gets the same number of MB. They both have to try several times to get them, though. so far, haven't run out (fingers crossed).

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My old P4 snagged a Ap yesterday, so that machine will be busy for 121 more hours. But I only have 21 MB's left on the mac. I was letting milkyway share. but their website is down and only have 2 MW's left.

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All you need to simplify process is start task on original host, then suspend it, then pass task WU to another host (along with result, checkpoint and stderr files to keep all consistent).

Along this line, is it possible to process same wu multiple times for benchmarking? Say you wanted to see if your buddy's 1gb 9600GT is really faster than your 8800 GTS? or you want to see if the latest app software is faster/slower than what you have now?

Martin